Achi news desk-
Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative premier has joined a call from leaders across the country requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss carbon pricing.
Tim Houston took to social media to share a letter he wrote to Trudeau on Friday in which he asked the prime minister to convene a meeting of prime ministers “to eliminate the carbon tax in an effort to make life more affordable for all Canadians.”
Last month, as an alternative to the federal carbon pricing plan, he presented Trudeau with a “Still Better Than Carbon Tax Plan,” which outlined his government’s previously released proposals for coastal protection, climate change, electricity clean and green hydrogen.
Trudeau told reporters earlier this week that he had not seen the details of Houston’s plan, but was open to talking about it.
Six premiers have now asked Trudeau for a first ministers’ meeting on carbon pricing, including Andrew Furey, Liberal leader of Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford.
The federal carbon price includes a quarterly rebate that works out to $988 a year for families of four in rural Nova Scotia, and to more than $1,400 and $1,300 in rural parts of Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario, in the that order. The next payment is due on April 15.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on April 6, 2024.
